Friends, Christmas came early for me this year. Santa {that would be the Santa of me} brought mama a new camera. Something to replace my aging, dropped on, battery sucking Canon A560. Which incidentally really doesn’t take the most horrid photos on the planet. But I wanted more, because I’m selfish like that.
This is what I’ve been using. It’s a good one, but it’s seen better days. The lens doesn’t close all the way, I have to do it manually. The batteries last about 15 minutes, so I travel around with a recharger and two pair of rechargeable batteries and most of the time when I’m in the middle of taking a really good photo, it completely dies on me.
Exhibit A:
It was time for us to take a break from each other. It’s not the Canon, it’s me. Really.
I replaced it with this beauty:
The heavens have opened, the choirs are singing, and I’m so blissed out I can’t stop playing with it long enough to sleep at night.
{Sleep is for the weak anyway.}
Allison
Hello there! I'm Allison Czarnecki, founder + editor of Petit Elefant, a blog all about style on a budget for every part of your life: style / home / travel / family. I do a lot of how-to beauty + style tutorials, travel posts, easy recipes, home remodel projects, and cool DIY crafts you totally want to try. I'm super happily married (to a hot Polish immigrant) and am the mother of two kids, a daughter and son, all of whom are featured here on the regular. We live in the country but we're a little bit rock + roll. Welcome!
Santa brought me the same one early too after the kids dropped mine for the second time and messed up the internal memory. I love it even if I haven't learned how to use it to it's full potential. I hope Santa got a kiss for that one.
yay… please don't tell me you found this at that hot shot thrift store of yours! ;)
OHHH, you lucky duck!
someday……someday!
I'm officially jealous. I've had my eye on one for awhile. I'm hoping I've been good enough this year for Santa to deliver one to me. Time will tell.
ooooooh!
with a camera like that you'll be missing out on a lot of sleep. glad you're strong like that ; ) soooo happy for you. that's awesome.
Congrats on the new camera. DSLRs are SUCH a big improvement over any point and shoot.
YAY! You are going to love it!
Merry Christmas to you!
I keep saying I'm going to upgrade to an SLR every time I get a new camera and really commit to learning aperture and shutter speed and then when the time comes I always buy one that is smaller than my current camera. I'm afraid I will never bring my camera along if it doesn't fit in my purse. Lame, I know.
Awesome camera!
We have a similar Canon beauty. We postponed buying it until last year. Now we're kicking ourselves for not buying it sooner! We practically tuck it into bed at night after a kiss and hug!
Yaaaaaaaaaay! I love my Canon. Congrats.
Ahhhhh so jealous!
You did it!!!!
Looks awesome, I sure wish I had a new lens.
I'm so happy to read this! I thought I was the weird one…. my lense doesn't close and the batteries are always dead! Oh well, I guess I'll have to talk to santa…
Right now I have your "before" camera and i have the same battery issue too! I want to wait in line for hours and hours this Friday morning to buy a new camera…
I'm jealous of your new toy!! Have fun with it:)
you will LOVE the camera! I can't put mine down!
Sleep is for the WEAK! Good for you for getting yourself an early present Now would you PULEASE tell Santa that I am DIE-ING for a new camera too! Thank you Elf.
I love that you are “blissed out”. What a great thing to be. Your writing is so good. It makes me happy. You will love having a nice dependable camera to take pics with and if you are like me you will never want to put it down.